John L wrote:

Thats interesting, although having looked again at Lr's website, the roofrails shown only show the front-rear rails, I guess I will just have to carry on badgering the dealer. thanks for the info.

John L:

I got my new Freelander delivered last Friday WITH roofrails AND crossbars!!

I can't believe such a simple process can be so friggin complicated!!!! All I want is roof rails for an FL2 with a sunroof.........come on Land Rover stop pi55 arsing about and get the F£%king thing sorted...8 months after launch is very embarassing for YOU.....ARSE AND ELBOW SPRINGS TO MIND!!!!

I asked the service manager at my local dealer about the FL2 roof rails and sunroof as he was fitting mine this afternoon (without sunroof).

He said that as far as he knew, the rails wern't compatible with the sunroof because the drain holes and channel were too close to the sunroof fixings and this was found to be causing water ingres problems during testing. Don't know how true this is though...sounds plausable but leads me to question if the sunroof sealing is up to the job.

LR customer service also confirmed that they would not be suitable for cars with sunroofs when I chased them for a realease date for the rails last week - no reason given though.

Netwisdom wrote:

I asked the service manager at my local dealer about the FL2 roof rails and sunroof as he was fitting mine this afternoon (without sunroof).

He said that as far as he knew, the rails wern't compatible with the sunroof because the drain holes and channel were too close to the sunroof fixings and this was found to be causing water ingres problems during testing. Don't know how true this is though...sounds plausable but leads me to question if the sunroof sealing is up to the job.

LR customer service also confirmed that they would not be suitable for cars with sunroofs when I chased them for a realease date for the rails last week - no reason given though.

Am I the only one bothered by the noise coming from the rails??

Does your car have a sunroof erik?

Alasdair wrote:

Does your car have a sunroof erik?

I still can't really detect any noise from my rails, but i may have some degree of top frequency hearing loss due to my occupation.My wife also has the same job so she can't hear anything either........... sorry

Had my roof rails fitted today - took my dealer the best part of 2 hours, but only charged me for 1 hour as quoted. Haven't noticed any increase in road noise at all, at speeds up to 70mph. Strangest thing is, I've just done my twice-weekly 140 mile trip on which I normally get between 37-39mpg, and tonight, road conditions the same, I got 40.4mpg! Can't believe that the roof rails actually increase economy, so I'll have to put it down to either a good tailwind, or maybe the software updates that they also did today do make a difference?

Pictures in my gallery of the roof rails.

To the best of my knowledge one cannot buy a non-sunroof LR2/Freelander 2 in the US. Hard for me to believe LR won't figure out a way to offer roof rails for the all the LR2's sold in the States... Greg East
Loveland, Colorado
USA
'08 LR2 Hers
'93 740i Mine
'87 944 turbo Mistress

NightFox wrote:

Had my roof rails fitted today - took my dealer the best part of 2 hours, but only charged me for 1 hour as quoted. Haven't noticed any increase in road noise at all, at speeds up to 70mph. Strangest thing is, I've just done my twice-weekly 140 mile trip on which I normally get between 37-39mpg, and tonight, road conditions the same, I got 40.4mpg! Can't believe that the roof rails actually increase economy, so I'll have to put it down to either a good tailwind, or maybe the software updates that they also did today do make a difference?

Pictures in my gallery of the roof rails.

Tandemman wrote:

Looks fantastic arev you another cooper/freelander owner? seems to be a lot about

Hi, at last, got my roof rails 1 week ago and fitted them myself (not the easiest job I must admit). I have an HSE i6 with moon roof, so for those of you wandering if the roof rails can be fitted with a moon roof, yes they can, no problem with opening it! I think I can enjoy my summer vacations here in Greece now. After all, maybe LR did it on purpose, the more you wait for sth good the more happy you are when you get it!